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INSTALLATION INSTRUCTIONS

CRUSH & SLEDGE Air Hammer Air Cleaners for XL Applications

Congratulations on your purchase of a quality AIR HAMMER Air Cleaner from HAMMER PERFORMANCE. Please follow these instructions carefully for successful installation.

  1. To promote efficient combustion, maximize power, and reduce carbon build-up, Air Hammer air cleaners do not recycle the engine's blow-by back into the intake tract the way the factory setup does. For this reason, it's necessary to reroute your engine's crankcase vents. Common methods for doing this include the use of breather "banjo bolts" used with fittings or with a "horseshoe" breather, and routed to either an open hose, a breather filter to absorb the moisture component of the blow-by, or a vented catch can. These accessories are available from HAMMER PERFORMANCE. These instructions will show the use of a horseshoe breather, however, standard banjo fittings work the same way.
  2. Remove the factory air cleaner per the instructions in the service manual, leaving the carburetor or throttle body in place. EFI Sportsters have a support bracket for the throttle body, leave this bracket in place. Carbureted Sportsters will require a support bracket, available from HAMMER PERFORMANCE.


  3. If your bike is carbureted, place the new support bracket in place, with a new gasket between the bracket and the carburetor (note that the included gaskets are adhesive backed). Start the 3 included 1/4-20 x 1" screws through the support bracket and into the carburetor to maintain alignment.
  4. On EFI bikes, remove the socket head screw that holds the factory support bracket to the throttle body, and replace it with the provided button head screw as shown. Put a little Loctite Blue onto the threads of this screw and tighten it to 80in-lbs.
  5. During the process of removing the factory air cleaner, the factory breather bolts were removed. Install the new hollow breather bolts and horseshoe as shown in the photo above. Be sure to put a washer on each side of the banjo as shown. Put a small amount of silicone or other gasket sealer onto the threads of the breather bolts, and tighten them to no more than 18 ft-lbs. As these bolts are hollow, excess torque will cause them to twist and break. The sealer on the threads is to keep them from coming loose.
  6. Note that your breather kit may include additional hardware not shown above. This is because the kits are generic and designed to be used in a number of different applications. You really only need the hardware shown above, you can discard the rest.
  7. Attach a piece of 3/8" hose to the outlet of the breather and route to a catch can, breather filter, or leave it open. Be sure that no oil dripping out of the hose can get onto the tire or onto the ground in the path of the tire.


  8. Using a new gasket (included), place the air cleaner back plate over the carb or throttle body mouth and install the 1/4-20 x 1" screws. BE SURE TO USE LOCTITE BLUE ON THESE SCREWS! If any of these screws comes loose, it will be sucked into the engine and cause great damage. Tighten the screws to 90in-lbs.


  9. Next, put the filter element in place as shown. The filter element, especially when new, will be a tight fit around the perimeter of the back plate, this is intentional to promote good sealing. Work it over the protruding part of the back plate around it's perimeter.


  10. Now put the outer plate into place and start the lower two screws. Snug these two screws down enough to keep tension on the element. Work the filter element over the protrusion on the outer plate while snugging the screws. Finally, put the upper two screws in place, and using the same technique, snug them as you work the filter element over the protrusion in the outer plate.
  11. When you're sure the element is positioned properly over the protrusions in both the back plate and the other plate, finish tightening the screws. Torque these screws to 90in-lbs.


  12. If using the factory cover:
    • Remove the plastic edging that surrounds the inboard edge of the factory cover, if present, leaving only the bare metal.
    • Attach the cover to the outer plate using the two provided Phillips-head screws. Use Loctite Blue on the threads and tighten securely
  13. Your AIR HAMMER air cleaner is installed! Now go Pound Your Competition!

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